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HEALTHCARE

Throughout the Van Buren facility, at
211 Crawford Memorial Drive, one will
find the staff places a great emphasis
on customer service. The Emergency
Department strives to ensure all patients
are seen in a timely manner. The goal
is to provide patients and their families
with exceptional care in a comfortable
setting when it’s needed most.
Baptist Health-Van Buren also
partners with New Vision – a medical
stabilization program – to help
local residents begin the process of
overcoming addictions to opioids and/
or alcohol safely.
Baptist Health-Fort Smith
Baptist Health-Fort Smith is a 492-
bed acute care facility located at 1001
Towson Avenue. It operates a 24-hour
emergency room, as well as a center
for cancer care, ENGT (Ear, Nose and
Throat), robotics surgery, neurosciences,
gastroenterology, and cardiology.
The Women’s Center offers services Rendering of future exterior of Mercy Hospital. Rendering courtesy Mercy Health.
such as mammography and digital
imaging, as well as osteoporosis,
gynecology, genetic testing and labor
and delivery.
For more information about Baptist
Health, visit www.baptisthealth.com
and select Van Buren or Fort Smith in
the medical centers menu.
Mercy Fort Smith
Mercy Hospital Fort Smith, located
at 7301 Rogers Avenue, kicked off
a $162.4 million expansion of its
emergency room and intensive care unit
in 2022 - one of several projects that
enable Mercy to care for more patients
in the River Valley. With construction
nearing completion, the upgraded SQUASH BLOSSOM
campus should be ready for additional
patients in spring 2025. 5005 Dora Rd,
Included in the project is an Van Buren AR 72956
expansion of the ER that will allow
for about 20,000 additional patient 479-474-1147
visits per year and includes special
considerations for infectious disease Hours: Monday-Friday 9am-6pm,
and behavioral health patients. Mercy
will expand its ER from 29 to 50 rooms Saturday 9am-5pm
and increase ICU capacity from 38 to
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